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Another $100 streaming media player, this time from Asus
shmokes:
Yeah . . . that's just too much space. At 20GB a pop I'd need at least 16 terabytes to store just what I have now (~400 movies and enough TV shows to take up at least 1.5-2x as much space as the movies), and my media library is always growing. I know hard drive space is always coming down in price, and not nearly all those movies and TV shows I have are even available on BluRay, but in principal 20 GB for a single movie is just too much for today's hard drive cost and capacity.
As for the box . . . it's definitely awkward, but Boxee is still an open system so there will be other options. For example, this upcoming $300 box. Or you can always use an IR blaster to hide the bastard. :)
boykster:
Sure its a lot of space, but like I said before - if you have a display that will benefit from uncompressed full 1080p content, and can swing the storage, it's totally worth it. I currently have a 10Tb RAID5 storage array that cost me just under $2k to build (12 1-Tb drives on a 3ware 9500SX sata RAID card in a Norco 4020 rack mount chassis). It would probably cost closer to $1k to build that same setup today. I've filled nearly 8Tb of that space with ~ 700 movies and TV shows. I'd say I have probably 30% BD rips in MKV format, and the rest are DVD rips (also uncompressed) with a smattering of compressed BD / HD-DVD rips, also in MKV format. I have room to add a second 8 drive array, and am planning on building that out early this year with 8 1.5Tb drives in RAID5 (approx another 10Tb after the RAID is built) - I already have the drive bay space and the RAID card, just need the drives
My critical viewing display is a 92" 1080p front projector - a panasonic AE4000 - and I can easily distinguish a compressed 1080p source from a native BD rip. There is also a very distinct difference between a DVD version and a BD one - hands down the uncompressed BD wins every time. XBMC in linux using VDAPU handles these full 1080p BD rips without missing a beat on my ION based systems. Good stuff!
shmokes:
Well, more power to you. If money were no object I would surely do something similar. Someday (not that someday money will be no object, but that such a setup will be perfectly affordable :) ).
Edgedamage:
--- Quote from: shmokes on January 09, 2010, 03:45:24 am ---Yeah . . . that's just too much space. At 20GB a pop I'd need at least 16 terabytes to store just what I have now (~400 movies and enough TV shows to take up at least 1.5-2x as much space as the movies), and my media library is always growing. I know hard drive space is always coming down in price, and not nearly all those movies and TV shows I have are even available on BluRay, but in principal 20 GB for a single movie is just too much for today's hard drive cost and capacity.
As for the box . . . it's definitely awkward, but Boxee is still an open system so there will be other options. For example, this upcoming $300 box. Or you can always use an IR blaster to hide the bastard. :)
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Nuu made a smaller version:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/nuu-player-runs-boxee-on-atom/
Ed_McCarron:
--- Quote from: boykster on January 09, 2010, 01:21:22 pm ---My critical viewing display
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Critical? If you miss an episode of Chuck, the world may end?
Wanna watch boykster cringe? Mention Divx. :)
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